An anonymous NBA assistant coach thinks the Los Angeles Lakers were setting Luke Walton up to fail this season, according to Dave McMenamin and Ohm Youngmisuk of ESPN.

The Lakers and Walton mutually agreed to part ways on Friday. Los Angeles went 37-45 this season and missed the playoffs.

While Johnson and Pelinka felt the roster they had constructed was capable of making noise in the playoffs, others around the league felt Walton had been handed a ticking time bomb. One Hall of Fame executive described the group as “a volatile mix of people, there's no doubt about it.”

“If I didn't know any better, I'd have thought that they were setting Luke up to fail [with that roster],” one NBA assistant coach said.

After LeBron James signed with the Lakers, Magic Johnson and Rob Pelinka signed Rajon Rondo, Lance Stephenson, Michael Beasley and JaVale McGee.

Executives around the NBA were all shaking their heads when the Lakers made those moves. Teams with LeBron on it are better suited to have shooting around The King since he's an exceptional passer and collapses the paint on his drives to the basket.

The roster in LA was constructed very poorly by Johnson and Pelinka. Unfortunately for Walton, he took the hit for it.